jitsu

Flawless command line deployment of Node.js apps to the cloud

Overview

Jitsu is a Command Line Tool (CLI) for deploying Node.js applications to the cloud. It's open-source and easy to use. We've designed Jitsu to be suitable for command line beginners, but still be powerful and extensible enough for production usage. If you aren't a fan of the command line or don't have terminal access you can still do everything Jitsu can do through our web admin, Samurai.

One-Line Deployment

( inside the path of your Node.js application )

jitsu deploy

This will create a new application, package.json, and deploy your path to Nodejitsu. If it's your first deployment, you'll be prompted for some information such as subdomain and start script but it's really easy and we promise it will only take a few seconds.

If you have any issues deploying your node.js application please feel free to open up an issue on the Github Issues section of this page, we'll have someone get back to you in a flash!

Usage

jitsu is mostly self documenting. After installation, run the jitsu command from your command line.

If it's your first time using jitsu, you will be prompted to login with an existing account or create a new account.

After you've logged in, you can start deploying apps immediately!

Command Line Usage

jitsu is mostly self-documenting. Try any of these commands to get started.

Help

jitsu is mostly self documenting. We suggest just trying it out. All commands will yield friendly messages if you specify incorrect parameters. If you find anything difficult to use, please open up a Github issue or pull request!

jitsu help
jitsu help apps
jitsu help snapshots
jitsu help users
jitsu help logs
jitsu help databases
jitsu help config

.jitsuconf file

All configuration data for your local jitsu install is located in the .jitsuconf file in your home directory. Directly modifying this file is not really advised. You should be able to make all configuration changes via:

jitsu config

If you need to have multiple configuration files, use --localconf or --jitsuconf options.

jitsu options

jitsu [commands] [options]

--version print jitsu version and exit
--localconf search for .jitsuconf file in ./ and then parent directories
--jitsuconf [file] specify file to load configuration from
--noanalyze skip require-analyzer: do not attempt to dynamicially detect dependencies

Libraries

jitsu is built on a few well developed, well maintained Node.js libraries. The Nodejitsu team and friends have been building and using these projects actively for the past two years. They are the most used Node libraries (see: http://search.npmjs.org/) and are actively maintained by Nodejitsu and other core members of the Node.js community. Each library serves a specific function and we highly suggest you check each one out individually if you wish to increase your knowledge of Node.js